Mountain Biking in the Portes du Soleil - Châtel
Mountain Biking in the
Portes du Soleil - Châtel
The village of Châtel is a charming base for a summer holiday in the French Alps and a great place to enjoy mountain biking in the Portes du Soleil. It is located a little to the east of sister towns, Morzine and Les Gets, and enjoys all the same mountain scenery. At Clarian Chalets we offer a wonderful luxury chalet for Portes du Soleil biking, situated in Châtel and over-looking the mountains. With a hot tub and sauna as well as sumptuous bedrooms it is a great home to return to after a day on the mountains.
The mountains in the summer months are a playgound for mountain bikers and Châtel has many dedicated trails with lift systems running through the summer. Here are a collection of links and resources that will help you plan routes, make adventures and create a fabulous holiday.
Châtel has lots of routes and trails marked. Click on the link for helpful information on routes, signs, maps and more.
The Châtel Bike Park Facebook Page provides a fantastic collection of information, photos and videos of what goes on. There are new trails and jumps that have been constructed since last summer with videos of the construction progress. The events of last summer are there including the Reboul Jam. And there is lots of footage of some fairly amazing stunts and biking.
Check out the Reboul Jam in July for some amazing bike action.
The Pass'Portes du Soleil MTB is an exciting three day event covering the whole of the Portes du Soleil region in a single circuit. Participants can start from any of nine points nearby the villages on the route and progress round at their own pace. The circuit covers 80km, 16 lifts with 8 provisioning stations over two countries with heights between 1000m and 2250m. There is 6000m of downhill and 1000m total climb.
Want to see how to ride properly? Take a look at the videos from Bikepark Chatel.
At Clarian Chalets we aspire
to create wonderful family holidays.
Visit us at clarianchalets.com/summer to find out more about our luxurious chalet holidays during the summer time in the French Alps or contact us and we will be delighted to answer your questions. Mountain biking from chalets in the Portes du Soleil is great fun! Click for summer pricing and availability.
